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“You think you’re my mother,” shouts Inga (Marcia Gay Harden), an unhappily married survivor of breast cancer, to her 8-year-old daughter, Indigo (Eulala Scheel), in the most indelible scene in Mary Haverstick’s film “Home.” “I hate my life!” Inga drunkenly yells, over and over. “And I hate you!” Such moments of psychological brutality are all too commonplace in the real world, when adults, surrendering to despair and self-pity, turn their children into convenient targets. But I’ve never heard a mother direct her bitterness at a young child with such piercing cruelty in a movie. And Ms. Harden, a great actress who never shies away from truthfulness, doesn’t soften Inga’s alcoholic viciousness. “Home,” which Ms. Haverstick wrote, directed, edited and co-produced, is an extremely personal film that has the tone and structure of a diary. -- Stephen Holden